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I just set up a bunch of IFTTT recipes to trigger when random stocks go up/down by 1% in a day, and then get it to push-notification me a question like "what ar

I just set up a bunch of IFTTT recipes to trigger when random stocks go up/down by 1% in a day, and then get it to push-notification me a question like "what are you doing right now?" I should only get one every couple of days they way I configured it (I think,) so perhaps requires more stocks. I wrote a different question onto each one, so I could easily get different reminders on the same day. If anyone else knows a better randomness generator for IFTTT (I couldn't seem to use "someone followed me on twitter" as a trigger...) then pipe up!

visakanv 13y ago
whoa, that's pretty clever!
JTon 13y ago
Write a local program to send an email at a random interval? I don't use IFTTT but surely it has some sort of email integration.
- tehwalrus 13y ago
  I thought about using whenever a spam email arrived in Gmail, set up a rule to forward to IFTTT...
jashmenn 13y ago
Interesting. For setting up a "random" trigger you could: - You could use the RSS trigger and pick a feed which is relatively random. E.g. Reddit front page post matching "cats". - You could use the NY Times trigger to search for a common news term e.g. "obama" - You could use soundcloud to trigger on "new public track by someone you follow" - If you wanted to go crazy, you could get a wemo motion and point it out your window
hammock 13y ago
That way you only get notifications during hours the market is open
- tehwalrus 13y ago
  which for me is 2pm-10pm, perfect time to bug me about what I'm doing right now!
gallamine 13y ago
I have a Python script that runs on my home computer. It runs on a 1 minute chron job and randomly sends a text message (via Verizon's phonenumber@vzwtext.com address) to my phone to check what I'm working on. The difficulty is that this system (on Verizon's end) seems a bit unreliable. I've been thinking about putting together an iOS app to send random push notifications to check what I'm working on. Would there be interest from others in this? I also have it set up so when I reply to the text message it logs it into a spreadsheet. My plan was to do some machine learning on my productivity. Haven't gotten around to that part yet though.
- tehwalrus 13y ago
  IFTTT can send texts, and also works with the Pushover[1] app (not free) which collates push notifications like this. You can also send it notifications yourself programmatically - check out their API to see if you can link it up to your python script. You might want to check out iDoneThis[2], which send you an email at the end of the day asking what you did. (I used it for about a month and then gave up, and it's less random, but it does log your responses.) [1] https://pushover.net/ https://pushover.net/ (links to both iOS and Play stores.) [2] https://idonethis.com/ https://idonethis.com/

visakanv 13y ago

whoa, that's pretty clever!

JTon 13y ago

Write a local program to send an email at a random interval? I don't use IFTTT but surely it has some sort of email integration.

tehwalrus 13y ago
I thought about using whenever a spam email arrived in Gmail, set up a rule to forward to IFTTT...

jashmenn 13y ago

Interesting. For setting up a "random" trigger you could: - You could use the RSS trigger and pick a feed which is relatively random. E.g. Reddit front page post matching "cats". - You could use the NY Times trigger to search for a common news term e.g. "obama" - You could use soundcloud to trigger on "new public track by someone you follow" - If you wanted to go crazy, you could get a wemo motion and point it out your window

hammock 13y ago

That way you only get notifications during hours the market is open

tehwalrus 13y ago
which for me is 2pm-10pm, perfect time to bug me about what I'm doing right now!

gallamine 13y ago

I have a Python script that runs on my home computer. It runs on a 1 minute chron job and randomly sends a text message (via Verizon's phonenumber@vzwtext.com address) to my phone to check what I'm working on. The difficulty is that this system (on Verizon's end) seems a bit unreliable. I've been thinking about putting together an iOS app to send random push notifications to check what I'm working on. Would there be interest from others in this? I also have it set up so when I reply to the text message it logs it into a spreadsheet. My plan was to do some machine learning on my productivity. Haven't gotten around to that part yet though.

tehwalrus 13y ago
IFTTT can send texts, and also works with the Pushover[1] app (not free) which collates push notifications like this. You can also send it notifications yourself programmatically - check out their API to see if you can link it up to your python script. You might want to check out iDoneThis[2], which send you an email at the end of the day asking what you did. (I used it for about a month and then gave up, and it's less random, but it does log your responses.) [1] https://pushover.net/ https://pushover.net/ (links to both iOS and Play stores.) [2] https://idonethis.com/ https://idonethis.com/